Thame

//ˈteɪm// name, pron

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Definitions

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Them. Scotland, obsolete

    "And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to the horne […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Thames at Dorchester-on-Thames.

    "Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it."

  2. 2
    A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, by the above river (OS grid ref SP7006).

Example

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"And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to the horne […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English thame.

Etymology 2

See Thames, of which it is a tributary.

Related phrases

market town

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